Lytle v. Commissioners of Election’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 421 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Scott v. Greenville County (1983), Stanford Daily v. Zurcher (1977)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · William Marbury v. James Madison · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any action or proceeding to enforce the voting guarantees of the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment, the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bly v. McLeod“must apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.